Add to this list: tripod, mixing board, headphone rack, any neat looking aurio gear I can find, vintage posters, any computer or video games I stumble across for basically any platform that are from pre 1985 or are on floppy disc, and various midi gear.

If everything goes according to plan, I'll finally start filming my damn tech show on Sunday.

I have acquired a PC tower. Now I need to make the trek to microcenter (I live within three miles, and I'll drive. It's not a trek) and see if they have a keyboard I like an internal CF to IDE adapter A small CF card A 3.5" floppy drive A 5.25" floppy drive An OPL2 or OPL3 soundcard A 4:3 monitor.

I know they have a dot matrix printer, but I don't know if I'm willing to pay full price for a new dog matrix printer.

Their website indicates that they have at least some of the items on this list, and that they might have others, depending on what they haven't sold out of stock yet.

At the very least I should be able to get the CF card and adapter, the dotmatrix printer, a keyboard (though possibly not one I like?), And a sound blaster compatible soundcard (which isn't what I was after, but it'll do if that's all they have.)

@jankoekepanUnfortunately, there are three or four models with *very* similar model numbers, differing in their aspect ratio and therefore horizontal resolution, which resulted in some mixed information.

Based on my quick research, I think what I posted here is correct, but some sources list this model number with a widescreen resolution (which it isn't) or with a couple of others.

@ajroach42 4:3's are normally 1280x1024 - and yes they're dirt cheap second hand. 3.5" floppies shouldn't be that hard to get; I can see the 5.25" can be a bit trickier. Dot matrix printers are still made - at quite a price. The Epson FX/RX (or at a push MX/TX) are good ones originally from the early 80s.

I was unable to find *any* PATA/IDE HDDs, and while I'm certain that they carry a keyboard I would have been happy with, their keyboard selection was so horrifically trashed that I couldn't navigate it.

I did find a VGA cable, but I'm not about to stand in line for twenty minutes to over pay for a VGA cable.

Their website is actually not horrible so I'll do a site to store order later maybe.

@ajroach42 Did you manage to get the CF and CF to IDE adapter you mentioned? I know that Win XP had huge issues with trying to boot the OS off a CF due to block size issues. Only a few brands of CF cards had tools that allowed you to change the block size and work around the limitation.

@ajroach42 No idea if that's an issue with any of the SSD to IDE adaptors either. I remember having to build a reproducible setup of a touchscreen PC with no moving parts for use on trains (as a cash register) and yeah, that was the biggest stumbling block. Machine even had a CF card slot to boot off, but you needed a properly prepared CF card. I know about 35 of them ended up in the field for many years.

@ajroach42 You can get SATA<->IDE converter boards cheaply on Amazon; they're bidirectional, so depending which port you plug things into you can either convert an IDE disk to plug into SATA, or a SATA disk to plug into an IDE board.

Next thrift store had a VGA cable for a dollar, some classic altec lansing computer speakers for $2, a headphone stand (which I passed up because I think I'm going to 3D print my own.), and a full size Mac USB keyboard for $3 (which is not at all the keyboard I want, but it's a decent board and a steal at that price.)

Next thrift store had some windows 98/XP era computer games, some stones vinyl, a new in box action figure from The Tick cartoon, and a 8.5" hole punch.